# 🌲 Forest Hoffman > Senior Software Engineer at PayPal Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/foresthoffman I am open to full-time and 100% remote opportunities. I am *not* open to relocation. As a self-taught engineer I have experience with a wide range of tech stacks and platforms. I am self-sufficient, reliable, and adaptable. That said, I particularly enjoy working on teams that have: a clear direction, excellent communication, and an eye for quality. I am interested in: 👍 Full-time positions 👍 Remote first organizations 👍 Senior Engineer positions 👍 Go, TypeScript, or Node 👍 RESTful APIs 👍 Microservices 👍 Distributed systems If you have a serious inquiry, please remove the tree emoji from my name. Thanks! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States Ingest and analyze internal developer productivity and performance metrics across teams and organizations at PayPal. Advise adjacent teams on creating seamless user experiences according to internal platforms and external industry standards. ### Software Engineer II @ PayPal Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Austin, Texas, United States Design, develop, and deploy tools to empower engineers to produce production ready code across PayPal. Collaborate with stakeholders and product owners to ensure that every planned application release is verified, tested, and recorded for future audits. Monitor site reliability and refine performance based on internal metrics. Receive feedback from users and product owners to add value to the project every release. Present designs and product updates to other teams and organizations across the company. ### Go Engineer @ The Home Depot Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | 13011B McCallen Pass, Austin, TX 78753 Contribute development time on multiple under-staffed teams on various facets of mission critical systems. Design internal monitoring ingest schemas to reduce the cost of complex third-party structures by 85% while maintaining sufficient data accuracy. Develop containerized platform and team agnostic APIs and services for internal clients, in Go. Build highly-available and fault-tolerant services to process large volumes of internal system log messages. Design and develop automated, and self-service, features for internal teams to track the status of their services. Pair with other teams and senior management to present new designs, clarify documentation, and receive user feedback. ### Frontend Engineer @ Coder Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area Maintain internal database and APIs for compilation and distribution of open-sourced Visual Studio Code extensions. Contribute to the server-powered fork of Visual Studio Code, called code-server. Engineer web-backend solutions in Go, for cloud-hosted user containers. ### CSIS Lab Tutor @ Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | 8800 Grossmont College Dr, El Cajon, CA 92020 Assist students with any Computer Science questions they may have, including (but not limited to): C, C++, Java, JSP, Apache Tomcat, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Collaborate with faculty and other tutors to provide the best assistance possible to every student, taking into consideration best practices and their personal learning styles. ### Full Stack Web Developer @ Forest Hoffman Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area Provide custom web solutions in the form of websites, as well as new features and maintenance to existing projects. ### Web Developer @ Grossmont Union High School District Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Valhalla High, 1725 Hillsdale Rd., El Cajon, CA 92019 Lead a team of high school students and alumni in the development of an educational WordPress plugin called Game On, for a user base of over 100 educators internationally. Manage release pipeline, code reviews, and commitment to standards and best practices. Push for every release to improve upon the last. Empower teachers with tools to enhance student learning and autonomy. ### IT Services Intern @ San Diego Supercomputer Center Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | 10100 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 Create a web portal for SDSC's data-storage clients. Utilize PHP and MySQL knowledge to design the backend and database for the portal. ## Education ### Associate of Science - AS in Computer Science Cuyamaca College Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### Valhalla High School Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/foresthoffman - Website: https://foresthoffman.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/foresthoffman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/foresthoffman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22